Coulommiers (French pronunciation: [kulɔmje] ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
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 Commanderie of the Knights Templar | |
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Location of Coulommiers  | |
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| Coordinates: 48°49′29″N 3°06′24″E / 48.8247°N 3.1068°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Seine-et-Marne |
| Arrondissement | Meaux |
| Canton | Coulommiers |
| Intercommunality | CA Coulommiers Pays de Brie |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Laurence Picard[1] |
Area 1 | 10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 15,250 |
| • Density | 1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC 01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC 02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 77131 /77120 |
| Elevation | 66–156 m (217–512 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.
The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.[3]
Demographics
editInhabitants of Coulommiers are called Columériens.
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 11,263 | — |
| 1975 | 11,498 | 0.30% |
| 1982 | 11,886 | 0.48% |
| 1990 | 13,087 | 1.21% |
| 1999 | 13,852 | 0.63% |
| 2007 | 13,649 | −0.18% |
| 2012 | 14,708 | 1.51% |
| 2017 | 14,838 | 0.18% |
| Source: INSEE[4] | ||
Twin towns
editCoulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958[5] and with Titisee-Neustadt in 1971. The twinning was renewed in 1982.
History
editCoulommiers was selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.
Notable people
edit- André Roussimoff, better known as André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (though was billed as hailing from "Grenoble, in the French Alps)
- Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire, military officer
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coulommiers". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 308.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-07-11.
External links
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- Official website of Coulommiers
- 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (in English)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
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